You will have to call Cox for them to recognize / activate the modem. I was hoping it could all be done online. Ideally I would buy a cheap $40 router and if it doesn't work I would just revert back to the existing rental one.. Be careful. I want to replace my cable modem, but what is holding me ba...

Buy stuff from your provider's supported list. In theory, anything should work, but if you buy one on their list, it is harder for them to blame you for problems. Nonetheless, an item from that list may not work. I bought one a year or two ago and Cox was unable to add it to their system when I cal...

Here in central Illinois on a mid-60's house, we have cast iron inside the house and under the slab. When it exits the house, it switches to clay tile. I don't know if that is common elsewhere or not. We had ours replaced from the house to the street with PVC a few years ago due to tree root issues...

I work for the Water Dept of a major, HCOL city, diagnosing, and repairing/maintaining water and sewer mains. I can't recommend the purchase of insurance on both lines strongly enough. If you have a water leak on your service line, I will cite you with three day's notice. Then I'll be back to shut ...

A family member, a friend, or a neighbor is far more likely to discover an on-going scam than a single scam. Even if those people do not exist, the scammer has to be somewhat nicer to you and keep you alive to keep the scam going. Well, not really, every so often one reads of a person collecting So...

I suppose everybody's different. For the past 48 years, my wife and I have viewed marriage as a 100% partnership. Two partners, each giving 100%. I'm sincerely happy for you and your wife, spectec. Like probably many others here, I had thought that my wife and I viewed marriage as a 100% partnershi...

In any case, in your personal experience, have you found a high lumen (150W - 250W equivalent with over 2,000-3,000 lumens) that works well outdoors in the conditions I've described? Thanks! 250 watts? Are you the people who live across the cove from me, who think they have to light up half the cov...

Free donuts? What bank is this? I want to move my account there. :shock: My local cu has free coffee and cookies, and free lollipops at the tellers stations :-) My local CU offers some of the least rewarding rewards credit cards you can find anywhere, and pays laughable yields on savings products. ...

I suppose everybody's different. For the past 48 years, my wife and I have viewed marriage as a 100% partnership. Two partners, each giving 100%. I'm sincerely happy for you and your wife, spectec. Like probably many others here, I had thought that my wife and I viewed marriage as a 100% partnershi...

Wow. I was expecting you to say one of you has millions of dollars or a start-up business. With the assets you have, and a lifetime to build together, are you that focused on money that 50/50 and 70/30 is such a cause for concern for community property? I'm a finance person, who has been divorced, ...

I might get a second opinion, but it will be a cold day in hell that I have crowns put on basically healthy teeth. I've had a lot of dental work over decades and I have never heard of what he told you.

And my B&M bank still has free donuts. Free donuts? What bank is this? I want to move my account there. :shock: My local cu has free coffee and cookies, and free lollipops at the tellers stations :-) My local CU offers some of the least rewarding rewards credit cards you can find anywhere, and pays...

[Thread merged into here, see below. --admin LadyGeek] I've been a customer for nearly 40 years.There is no question that the quality of customer service has declined. I often say that the best proof against evolution is the transformation of Vanguard's leadership in the past 40 years. On Thursday ...

So I bought my roommate a space heater because I can’t sleep when the house heating is on. Only think is the space heater gets too hot at night so he turns it off. We keep the heating temp at 60, but it seems to always go offf in the middle of the night after he shuts it off I can't understand what...

I can't speak about Home Depot, but Lowe's was a mess when I ordered a storm door. It turns out their employees do not do the installation, they hire apparently random people to do it, and if you call Lowe's and ask for the manager, you can get any one of maybe five people since they have multiple m...

What Luddite wou,d do taxes by hand? To save $70. Meanwhile spendiing $70 worth of time and effort with their pencil. Plus the cost and hassle of finding and printing the approximate forms. I save money elsewhere in life to the extent that the $70 is not significant when compared to that saving. Le...

What is the probability that this may happen? How long have you lived there and has it ever happened before? Cold can be there without the snow. Surelyi inyour time there you have had cold that your system survived? Be realistic in your concerns. In my area we have had multiday power failures about...

How far north are you? We get nor’easters here around Boston but the winds don’t reach hurricane strength... maybe 50mph or so gusts in a bad one, but I’ve never seen anything close to actual sustained hurricane (75mph) wind. Temps reaching zero happen, but rarely. Sounds like you are way up there ...

The Free Fillable Forms allow you to file electronically and most importantly do basic math calculations and validations. It makes absolutely no sense to take the unnecessary risk of filing completely manually. Do you think you will go to jail if you make a small arithmetic mistake? No, the IRS cat...

I am attracted to the idea of doing my taxes by hand with no software. Just the forms, a pencil, and calculator. Especially since TurboTax is like $70 now. Software under $20 (FreeTaxUSA etc.) is still much easier than doing it by hand, especially when you make changes. Oops, another 1099 came in. ...

For folks doing paper. Do you print all forms and instructions at home? Or order them somehow? Last year I was gonna try by hand as well. our library didn’t have the forms. I already had TurboTax, and was too cheap to want to also print everything I would have needed to do by hand. I used to order ...

Libraries are not free to get books, you're paying for them with your property taxes. I moved to an unincorporated area where the library is not a line item on the property tax bill. To get access to the local library they would require an annual payment equal to what that tax would be, and in my c...

I tip $5. I'm sure these delivery people are paid dirt, and they work hard. I buy 10 pound bags of kitty litter, 12 can packs of Coca Cola, etc. and it's about fifty feet from their truck to my door. If they earned decent salaries, I would not tip. The fact is, almost anyone working low on the food ...

I was all convinced that I was going to buy an Insight from web info then I went in to a Honda dealership today. The first thing is, I leaned forward and hit my head on the sun visor. I am tall, but not that tall, and adjusting the seat did not help. Then I realized my body was twisted to the right....

I am not yet Medicare age but am concerned about what kind of plan I may soon sign up for. My experience with regular health insurance makes me very concerned that Medicare Advantage plans may have exclusions or in-network vs out-of-network issues similar to the issues I had with regular employer p...

I am turning 65 in December 2018. Im have signed up for Medicare and I got my card. I am on the fence about signing up for a Medicare Supplement or a Medicare Advantage plan immediately. I can afford, and do not mind paying, Part A and Part B deductibles. I do not need Part D because my drugs costs...

My first part of due diligence would be to call both the fire dept and police dept and ask them about the organizations soliciting my money. I have done that. In 26 years of living in my house and years of solicitations, not once has one of these places been legitimate. Same with the phone calls. T...

I concur with the cat. Back in the mid 1980's my mother had a terrible problem with mice. I told her, "get a cat." So she did (it was a female as another poster recommended). The cat only caught one mouse that I can recall. The others all sensed there was a predator in the house and left of their o...

I'm looking at charities to include in my will. I'm particularly looking for organizations that help sea animals. I spoke to Ocean Conservancy, and they seem to mostly do policy work. That is important, but I also want hands on the ground so to speak. Charity Navigator gives them the highest rating ...

I'm not sure if this is complete, but I found a $7500 federal tax credit for a Tesla up until the end of the year. That would do me almost no good as my federal tax bill last year was about $400 and will be about $1000 more this year due to the tax law changes. My state appears to have zip.

Hmm... what about a Corolla? That should alleviate most of what's been mentioned in the thread. It's still very good MPG so check out the data (if available) on production effect of both of these on the environment. They might come up close is my guess. I looked at the Prius today and the front com...

I get news and also interesting articles from the BBC free. There is enough other news free around the Internet to the degree I care about it. I am not aware of any major US "newspaper" that is without bias.

Camry or accord hybrid. they get about the same mileage as prius and in general they are better cars. Realistically you didnt say anything you want in a car sobit is hard to give any specifics. Mainly just a lot of complaints about modern design which is largely driven by safety standards😁 Unfortun...

A pure EV does not have a long enough range. why not? The technology is not there yet, I suppose. Presumably things will get better, but until recharging stations are more common, including on freeways, range is a limiting factor in deciding what to buy. About once a month I have a 200 mile trip.

So after a lot of waffling it looks like I am going to buy a new car. Both my cars are decades old, so all I know about new cars comes from renting them and that several family members in distant states have and like Prius(es?) From renting, I know I don't want a Ford Fusion because from the driver'...

BBB A+ rating. That's hilarious. (to eliminate complaints, all a company has to do is contact BBB and tell them that the problem is resolved and the case can be closed. No contact is made to the complainant. The BBB is only interested in the business side of the story.) This hasn't been my experien...

As you probably know by now, your problem is not going to get resolved with the roofing company. Get in touch with your insurance agent and explain this situation. Let them know you need to have the repairs done ($1500), because my guess is you are going to have bigger problems if you don't. They s...

I am sorry to hear this. You have done a remarkable job of planning already. I think very few people could have done this. My thought is that you are right to not tell the kids until your husband becomes symptomatic. Let them have an untroubled childhood as long as possible. Perhaps in ten years sig...

Despite all the complaints here, I am happy with the post office in my area. I am not happy with UPS and FedEx, which seem to respectively think leaving a package at the street, where I can't see it from the house since the garage is in the way, or leaving a heavy package against my outward opening ...

By the way, I noticed in recent weeks that occasionally the same item gets included in the email on two consecutive days (only one physical letter gets delivered). Anyone else seen that? Yes. I just assume something in the mysterious process doesn't get it into the delivery chain the first time. I ...